The Chancellor, George Osborne, is expected to deliver the toughest budget in decades, as he tries to tackle the country's debts. The health watchdog, NICE says the food industry could help to save thousands of lives every year by reducing the salt and fat in its products.

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0615 Business News:
Adam Shaw previews today's emergency Budget, with the LSE's Tony Travers and Francesca Lagerberg, head of tax at accountants Grant Thornton. Rob Burgeman, divisional director at Brewin Dolphin, looks over the markets, and Prof John Coffee from the Columbia Business School analyses an $11bn lawsuit between Barclays and the creditors of failed Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers.

0716 Britain's film producers say they want an end to what they call the "suffocating cycle of subsidies". Two people who run production companies: Rebecca O'Brien of Sixteen Films and Icon Films' Stewart Till, discuss what kind of help
would best support the creative arts.

0741 Chancellor George Osborne has said he wants 80% of the deficit reduction to come through cuts and only 20% through tax rises. BBC's chief political correspondent Norman Smith examines if this is feasible. Lord Bichard, executive director of the Institute for Government
explains what he expects from today's Budget.

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0749 Thought for the day with Oliver McTernan, director of the NGO Forward Thinking.

0822 What is the most important thing when you go to the theatre? The acting? The direction? The drama? Or the seats and how comfortable they are? Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits The Royal Shakespeare Company that has
commissioned an Italian design company to make seats
as part of a refurbishment of its theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.

0829 Sports news with Rob Bonnet.

0831 Yemen has now replaced Iraq as al-Qaeda's main base in the Middle East. That is the belief of senior western intelligence officials. Last Saturday for example, in a bold daylight raid, militants attacked the security HQ in Aden freeing a number of al-Qaeda operatives. The BBC's Frank Gardner
reports on a hidden war.

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